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Conference Opportunities
Instructional Technology (Regional) |
Teaching and Learning (Regional) |
Please consider these conferences not just candidates for attendance but also for presentations.
(Thanks to Bob King for his contributions.)
Regional Instructional Technology Conferences
UNC System Teaching and Learning Collaborative Conference
http://conference.unctlt.org/
This is a great conference if you are interested in learning about new technologies and their pedagogical applications. It is also a great place to present. The conference is conveniently located at the North Raleigh Hilton and the state pays for a hotel room at the double occupancy rate. The registration fee last year was $125. and most meals are included. The Teaching and Learning Center has paid the registration fee for some faculty in the past. The 2007 conference will take place Wednesday-Friday, March 21-23. It generally begins late morning on Wednesday and ends Friday noon.
Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference
http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/
" For eleven years, the Instructional Technology Conference has provided thousands of higher educational professionals from across the country a place to share experiences and expertise in educational technology. The conference features nationally recognized speakers, high-quality presentations, and hands-on workshops as well as a convenient location, affordable cost, and friendly conference staff."
This is a conference that Ray Purdom, Director of the UNCG Teaching and Learning Center, attends regularly. He feels that it is a fine, compact conference. In the past, it has been a bit more oriented to technology than pedagogy. The conference takes place at Middle Tennessee State in Murfreesboro, TN. The 2007 conference will be Sunday to Tuesday, April 1st-3rd. Again, this would be a good conference at which to present.
National Instructional Technology Conferences
Annual MERLOT Conference
http://conference.merlot.org/
MERLOT stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. The site is a learning objects repository as well as a meeting place for people with common interests. The site includes several discipline-specific communities with expert profiles and interlinking across objects, experts, expert choices, and communities. The MERLOT conference takes place over four days in late July or early August at varying locations. Ray Purdom is the program chair for the 2007 conference and is head of MERLOT's Teaching and Technology community.
Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/
This well-respected conference is in its 23rd year at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The 2007 conference will take place Wednesday-Friday, August 8-10. The conference keynote speeches and many of the presentations are available online.
Educause Conference
http://www.educause.edu/conference/annual/
"As the premier information technology gathering for higher education, this event draws attendees from all professional levels, from all sizes and types of institutions, and from across the United States and around the world."
This is a large conference with many vendors that takes place in November at varying venues. It encompasses information technology as well as instructional technology. Teaching and learning is a part of the conference but not its main focus.
Sloan-C International Conference (formerly known as the Asynchronous Learning Networks Conference)
http://www.aln.org/conference/index.asp
"The purpose of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is to help learning organizations continually improve the quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines."
Sloan-C is another well-respected conference that takes place in early November each year in Orlando. To date, its focus has been totally online with an emphasis on asynchronous communication. Last year, there was consensus that it would be good to have a hybrid course track this year.
Other Lists of Instructional Technology Conferences
Distance Education Clearinghouse Conference Database (From University of Wisconsin Madison Distance Education Clearinghouse)
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conf/
This international conference database can be searched by conference title, date, keyword, geographic region, and call for papers. It holdings contain over 100 conference listings.
Regional Teaching and Learning Conferences
Lilly South Conference on College Teaching
http://www.uncg.edu/tlc/lillysouth/
UNCG hosts the southern regional Lilly Conference on College Teaching. " Lilly Conferences are retreats that combine workshops, discussion sessions, and major addresses, with opportunities for informal discussion about excellence in college and university teaching and learning. Internationally-known scholars join new and experienced faculty members and administrators from all over the world to discuss topics such as gender differences in learning, incorporating technology into teaching, encouraging critical thinking, using teaching and student portfolios, implementing group learning, and evaluating teaching."
The 2007 conference will take place Friday-Sunday noon Februrary 16-18th, 2007 at the Koury Convention Center as usual. This is a great opportunity for presenting in the area of teaching and learning with or without technology.
National Teaching and Learning Conferences
Lilly Conference on College Teaching
http://www.units.muohio.edu/lillycon/
The national Lilly conference takes place in November each year at the Marcum Center on the campus of Miami University of Ohio. It is a large conference at which many of the best names in teaching and learning and faculty development regularly present. The conference takes place in a retreat atmosphere with all meals provided. Presenters and keynoters are very accessible.
Check out the websites for the other regional Lilly Conferences:
• Lilly North
• Lilly West
• Lilly East
The Teaching Professor Conference
http://www.teachingprofessor.com/
The 2007 Teaching Professor Conference, run by Maryellen Weimer, will be held Friday-Sunday noon, May 18-20, 2007 in Atlanta. This is a great conference to attend as well as to submit a proposal.
POD Conference
http://www.podnetwork.org/conferences.htm
The Professional and Organizational Development Network Conference takes place annually at the end of October or early November in varying environments. As with the national Lilly conference, it is a large but friendly conference with many luminaries with a retreat atmosphere. In addition to teaching and learning, there is an emphasis on faculty development.
The 32nd annual POD conference will be held October 25-28, 2007, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Other Lists of Teaching and Learning Conferences
Coming soon.....